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by mkempe 9y ago
Formally, the current ice age hasn't ended and its effects will return in full force; we happen to live in an interglacial period, still overall a colder climate than when the Earth has not been in an Ice Age.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Note: the HN title has been changed from the original "How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack" which is the actual title of that IEEE Spectrum article.
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by mkempe 9y ago
What's with the ad hominem? The authors themselves admit that their design and hypothetical weapon cannot account for the actual symptoms. Edit: when my kids finally convince me to get a dog for the family, I'll name it Truth, Fac
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by mkempe 9y ago
I'm happy with the NSA having and keeping sole responsibility for it, iff they do the job.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Ah, if only the country had a three-letter agency with a responsibility to identify weaknesses in cyber infrastructure and work with relevant manufacturers to fix these bugs...
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by mkempe 9y ago
I agree that their failure due to being busy bees is not an established fact, merely a rhetorical device on my part. So, since you think they're not too busy with spying on us, then what do you think accounts for their dereliction of d
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by mkempe 9y ago
Theorem: All great Mac software is re-created as web-based apps. Corollary: coming soon to your browser, HyperCard.
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by mkempe 9y ago
We planted milkweed at our home, 9 years ago in Colorado, but never saw any visiting Monarch.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Until and unless they actually test their "reverse-engineered" device with live subjects under similar conditions to what has been reported in Cuba, how valid is that claim? Edit: this is, of course, a rhetorical question. The &qu
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by mkempe 9y ago
The NSA is too busy spying on all Americans [edit: as well as collecting backdoors and keeping OS bugs secret] to fulfill its official duties (one of which is to protect U.S. communications networks and information systems). Edit: all of th
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CIA Release of New and Gruesome Details on Its Torture Program (2016)(aclu.org)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
I commented here 10 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291004 in relation to "Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) (arxiv.org)"
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by mkempe 9y ago
Yes, our solar system travels from arm to arm! while the overall shape of the galaxy remains. By the way, our transit between and into these galaxy arms is theorized to coincide with past mass-extinction events, across tens of millions of y
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by mkempe 9y ago
Did you maybe mean: small, satellite galaxies show up in the same orbital plane as the main galaxy's disk.
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by mkempe 9y ago
In Europe, many people eat horse steaks, snails, frog legs, and rabbits. Are these similarly disturbing?
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by mkempe 9y ago
If you reject free markets, contracts, and the social harmony of pricing mechanisms, you had better have better arguments than clicking on a down arrow.
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Uthash: a hash table for C structures(troydhanson.github.io)
1 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
He estimated the cost of a hyperloop connection between LA and SF at $6b. In other words, less than newest rise in projected cost of this government train. Can it be built in less than 15 years...
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by mkempe 9y ago
I've happily used uthash [1] in embedded-system software written in C and C++. [1] https://troydhanson.github.io/uthash/
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by mkempe 9y ago
You should trust free markets and the widely distributed, deep wisdom of contracts. There are already market-based mechanisms in use for such needs in other areas of life. For example, one can rent an indoor soccer field at a fixed weekly t
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Cost of SF-LA train rising 20% to $77B, delayed 4 years to 2033 [pdf](hsr.ca.gov)
3 points by mkempe 9y ago|2 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
Indeed. Look for the "UV index" in your local weather reports. If it's below 3 [on a sunny day, during wintertime] it means that the low angle of the sun, even at noon, reduces UV intensity to such an extent that your skin c
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by mkempe 9y ago
It seems they did not run a full experiment, which would have included also attempting to turn what they call "liberals" into "conservatives".
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by mkempe 9y ago
In Scandinavia we use thick, dark shades and curtains, and children sleep well in all seasons. Is that option not available in your country?
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by mkempe 9y ago
There are other people who enjoy morning sunlight based on life according to solar time (noon is at or near solar noon). Why should your odd preference for reduced morning sunlight be enforced by law on everybody else?
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by mkempe 9y ago
Why is this marked "[dupe]"? this article is dated March 9 and was not previously posted.
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100 Years Later, the Madness of Daylight Saving Time Endures(smithsonianmag.com)
33 points by mkempe 9y ago|33 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
That is all relative to the commonly agreed time, it does not require solar noon to be at 1200 or 1300, nor any other arbitrary further time-shifting by 30 or 60 minutes.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Do you think they could and/or should do so? what's stopping them from making that kind of choice where the hours of daylight after work are vitally important to them?
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by mkempe 9y ago
What would be examples of such contracts, where you need solar noon to be at 1300 instead of 1200?

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